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| Britain losing battle against internet crime, lawmakers say | | | LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Britain is losing the battle against cyber crime and needs a new crack crime unit to fight the growing problem in cooperation with its global partners, particularly the European Union, a panel of lawmakers said in a report on Tuesday. |
| Forward Calendar - U.S. corporate bond new issues | | | July 29 (Reuters) - The following are lists of upcoming high-grade and high-yield corporate bond offerings in the United States. The information was gathered from Thomson Reuters U.S. new issues... |
| Women tackle 'Everest of sailing' | | | Sailing around the world is one of the most grueling challenges on the planet, with muscle-bound skippers steering 20-meter yachts through everything from tropical cyclones to Antarctic storms. |
| Jobs and education needed to win British over to fracking-survey | | | LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Government incentives for affected communities must be followed up by education and job creation to convince a sceptical British public that fracking for shale oil and gas is right, according to a survey of industry professionals. |
| Egypt sides defiant as EU envoy seeks compromise | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Europe's top diplomat shuttled between Egypt's rulers and the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday in a mission to pull the country back from more bloodshed, but both sides were unyielding after 80 Islamist supporters were gunned down. |
| Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera | | | Harlem Stage is banking on Makandal its first opera commission and an ambitious, contemporary work revolving around the leader of an 18th-century slave revolt in Haiti to raise its international profile. |
| Photographer investigated over topless Duchess photos | | | A photographer suspected of taking topless vacation pictures of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, last year was placed under formal investigation in June, a spokeswoman for the Nanterre prosecutor said Friday. |
| 43 killed in bombings across Iraq | | | A string of car and roadside bombs exploded across Iraq on Monday morning, killing at least 43 people and wounding nearly 200 others, police said. |
| AEG tries to show star had secret addiction | | | Michael Jackson "had a real monkey on his back" with a longtime drug addiction, his family kept it secret from the world and it led to his overdose death, a lawyer for AEG Live said. |
| Bribery allegations hit GSK | | | Jim Boulden reports on the admission from GlaxoSmithKline that its employees may have committed crimes in China. |
| Washington's corpse flower ends its stinky reign | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For weeks, gawkers lined up at the U.S. Botanic Garden, hoping to be among the lucky ones to catch the show when a giant-sized corpse flower bloomed for the first time in seven years. |
| FBI arrests 150 in three days in sex-trafficking sweep | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI arrested 150 people across the United States on charges of holding children against their will for prostitution, a three-day weekend sweep that officials on Monday called the largest-ever operation against child sex-trafficking. |
| Football Dortmund spoil Pep's debut | | | Pep Guardiola's first competitive game in charge of Bayern Munich ended in defeat on Saturday as Borussia Dortmund ran out 4-2 winners in the German Super Cup. |
| Why is this guy a top thinker? | | | In the past, author and NYU professor, Clay Shirky's predictions haven't always come true, but it appears he was on the money in 2011. Foreign Policy Magazine named Shirky one of their "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for his musings on social media's impact on revolutions, which we saw come to full fruition in the Arab Spring. |
| Icahn opposes voting rule change proposed by Dell founder | | | July 29 (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn urged Dell Inc's special committee to not change voting rules, as proposed by the company's founder Michael Dell, which would make it easier for a CEO-led group to take the personal computer maker private. |
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